Television personality Lady Bunny
believes the gay community “frowns” on drag queens.
The 50-year-old Lady Bunny, founder of
the annual Wigstock and a judge on cabler Logo's RuPaul's Drag U,
appeared on HuffPost Live alongside Ivy Winters and Manila
Luzon.
Lady Bunny said that drag queens have
to come out twice.
“It's interesting because you
realize, 'Ok, I'm different from all these other kids at school.'
Then you realize, 'I'm gay.' Then, you kind of have to come out
again as a drag queen, because drag queens are sometimes frowned on
in the gay community.”
“Like, they'll put us on a pedestal
and want us to entertain them but they don't always want to be our
boyfriend, they don't always want to … you know, certain elements
of the gay community do look down on drag queens.”
She said that “conservative elements”
of the community complain that the Gay Pride Parade does not
represent them.
“But that wasn't who started
Stonewall. It was people like us who are out in the streets doing
drag and we had had enough.”
“And I'm straight acting,” Luzon
interjected. “Acting like a straight woman, okay.”
“Your legs go straight up,” Lady
Bunny joked. (The video is embedded on this page. Visit
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